John Cleland

His best-known book, Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1749; banned as obscene for many years), includes a scene in which Fanny watches fascinated as two young men have sex.[1] This, and the fact that the many heterosexual sex scenes in the book are written from a woman's point of view, have led to speculation that Cleland might have been gay.[2]

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